EFCC Moves Against Jonathan’s Political Opponents, Declares ManHunt for Bukola Saraki

The Economical and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has launched a manhunt for perceived opponents of President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2015 ambition, iReports-ng is reporting According to the online medium, the first on the list of those already identified by the agency’s leadership for arrest is the former governor of Kwara state, Bukola Saraki who is now a Senator in the National assembly. The move by the EFCC seen as a survival battle, it was learnt, was being made by the Commission’s Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde to “impress President Jonathan that the Commission can be useful to hunt down his political opponents in the run-down to the 2015 election.” “The EFCC has been coomatose in the last two years or thereabout and so for it to suddenly wake up from its deep slumper is to show you that the Chairman is fighting hard to keep his job and also see how the imminent merger of EFCC with the older organisation, ICPC as part of government’s plan to streamline its ministries and agencies can be averted”, a source in the know in Abuja told the online medium. It said to prove its seriousness; the EFCC may declare Saraki who had already been investigated by the police special fraud unit wanted. This the Commission will hinge on the Senator’s failure to honour an invitation to appear at its office in Abuja today. Saraki had since 2011 shown interest in the presidency. As a result, he has since been noted as opposed to the incumbent President Jonathan.